The kids had a wild fun day chasing around screaming on top of their lungs. The girls, Elle and Mia, bonded in no time holding hands together wherever they went. Mia was like a big sister to Elle, helping her putting on and taking off the shoes and always looking out for her. When we're going to leave, Elle was crying because of she wanted to stay with her BEST FRIEND. She even agreed mama and dada to leave her behind so that she could stay with Mia. No doubt, she adored Mia. 
It was windy and freezing cold on the day of Easter egg hunt at Celery Flat as opposed to the sunny springlike weather on the day before. Silly me thought it was the Easter weekend. I must have lost track of what day supposed to be recently.
It was a fun fun day of "EGG JUMP". EGG JUMP is the ridiculously cute name Elle came out with for the Easter egg hunt. To quote her saying, "Let's do the Egg Jump!". I totally forgot to bring along a basket for the egg hunt but luckily the staff was handing out the meijer bag for those in need. At 10:15 am sharp, all the kids in the age group from 2 to 3 rushed into the field and collected the assorted colored eggs and candies scattered around. Oh boy, in less than 5 minutes all the goodies on the field was gone.
Elle was surprise to see there're more candies inside the egg when I openned the first one. But, she insisted putting the candies back to the egg the way it was after we got all the eggs openned. Oh well, just another pet peeve of her.
We have been having spring-like weather recently, lots of rains and above 60F temp. After dinner, we just needed to get out to get some ice cream fix.
Dear Elle,
You've been doing so well sleeping in your own bed from day one we put together the dora bed in your room. The transition was simply effortless. When it's bedtime, you'd go straight to your room lying down and bargaining how many books to read before going to sleep. To name a few of your favorite books: The Giving Tree, What the dinasour does when he's sick, three little pigs, the monster handbook, Horton the elephant etc.
Your innovative way of saying the alphabet letters cracks us up. It goes like this: A for Anna, C for Copper, J for Josie, M for Michael, K for Kaylin, Z for Zachery and E for ME (Elle). There're all names, names of the little friends from your daycare.
We're so proud of you able to write number 1 to number 5 all by yourself. It's hilarious to watch you reading aloud from a book or a paper as if you can really read. It's such a spirit-lifter hearing you cheer us up with "I know you can do it! Comeon! You can do it!". Funny you would wave your indexed finger from left to right while saying "No No No". When you can't do something, you'd say, "I've no power, all the people take away my power". Whenever mama tells you she couldn't do it because she has no power, you tell mama not to worry. You said, "I have an idea. The power is in my pocket!". That day, dada mocked you being a fatty baby and immediately you shouted back, "I'm not fatty. I'm CUTIE!". 
It's funny to watch you cautiously put one hand underneath you chin while the other hand delivering the food into your mouth when you eat. We have so much fun playing matching card game together. That day mama asked you what were you doing when seeing you busy typing on the computer keyboard. Without giving mama a peek, you replied in a serious tone saying: "I'm busy. I'm doing a job.". The other day, mama took a break from working on the laptop and went away attending something else. By the time mama came back, you had already sneaked up sitting on mama's chair busying tapping the keyboard with your fingers. You turned your head and were startled to see mama standing right there when hearing a "Ahem.." sound. You flashed mama a smile saying "I'm mama.". Mama was floored.
Love you... one hundred percent,
mama
Elle picked out a pink rose for mama on the Valentine's day while she and dada went out buying donuts.
For the first time in 77 year, Valentine's day falls on Chinese New Year. The first thing that came to my mind to make for Elle's Valentine's party at daycare was these chocolate dipped Valentines fortune cookies. Cupid + Year of the Tiger = Sweet.
Did I mention before Elle loves fish? This daredevil wants to eat the fish eyeballs!
We bought a couple of these gorgeous giant oranges from the market. Elle was obessed with the scale.
Steamboat feast! She enjoyed dipping fishballs into the sa cha jiang.
Wish you all a happy new year and happy valentine's day! May the year of tiger bring you good luck, good health, laughter and happiness.
Dear Elle,
January 16, 2010 marked a major milestone for you and us as a family. You're fully POTTY TRAINED!
You have no idea how frustrated we were over the inconsistency of your potty-training progress that sometimes you did so good and then all of a sudden you started regressing in it. So, at that major milestone date, we brought you picking out your first big girl panty. Just simple like that, from that day onwards you never look back. We only had a handful of minor accidents like you sobbed sadly over peeing through your panty. Even though we insisted you wearing diaper at bedtime, you mostly keep it dry overnight and will wake up and tell us you want to go potty. 
It's so interesting to hear you talking about what's happening in the school when you come back home. You'd report what kind of panties (dora, princess, tinkerbell etc) your little friends wore on that day. A lot of times, you'd accidently slip out of your mouth the bad things you've done at school. Like, you ate snow while you're playing outside, or you got time-out by the teacher. When we asked did you cry when you got punished, you said "NO! I do not cry. Cooper's crying. He's a cry baby." followed with a burst of mocking laughter. That day, you showed us how you danced at school, with one hand put on your waist and the other pointed up in the air and then kept twirling.
As you're getting more whiny, sneaky, and naughty, dada was glad to find a long ruler inside a box. His intention is as simple as using it to warn and threathen a refuse-to-listen toddler. Oh well, it didn't work in our way though as you're more than happy to get a few smacks by putting your hand out or lift your lil bum towards us. Sometimes, you even plead earnestly and say please begging for a spank when we pull out the ruler only for a scare.
It's amazing that you sat through the whole show watching "Superman returns" with us. You love superman! Whenever he's in trouble, you wish you could jump in to help. We also found out you loves the thrills and chills of scary movies. You simply couldn't take your eyes of the monsters, ghosts, or aliens.
It's utterly cute of you when you bark "Yeess Sir!" with a salute gesture of putting your hand on the forehead. Out of the blue you'd lift one finger up and said, "Oh! I have an idea...". Sometimes you'd pretend talking like a robot. You love to start your sentence with "How about...?". We're amused when you call out "hey guys!". To name a few of your favorite words: "I have a surprise for you", "you don't say STUPID!", "disgusting", "I'm BOOTS!", "I got one, you got TWO!", "I got one, you got NOTHING!", "I want you to be happy.", "I don't want you angry", "No! It's not FUNNY!". Oh, the funniest is whenever your panty stucks up your bum crack, you yell out loud "It stucks in my NUTCRACKER!".
You'd kiss my eyebrows to cheer me up. Whenever dada stared at you angrily, you'd immediately hold up one hand and put it against your face trying to block his stare. Everytime when strangers smile at you, you'd cover your face with your hands and asked us, "Why uncle/aunty 笑我?".
Whenever you come across a ripped page at reading time, you'd question who ripped it and then we'd start passing the blames among dada, mama, and you and finally agreed it's the naughty boy at the library who did it. The whole conversation rhymes like the cookie jar song.
To claim our bed from your invasion, we decided to use dora bed as a bait. When we told you we're going to buy you a dora bed, you jumped in joy saying, "You guys sleep in your own bed, and I guy sleep on my dora bed. OKAY?". Days before picking up your dora bed, we cleaned up your room, took apart the crib and rearranged the furniture. When you came back from daycare, the moment you walked into your room you blurted out, "Why the mess? Where's baby room? Why you throw away baby room?".
Love,
Mama
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